The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-18
FLORIDA.
FLORIDA
Lakeland has begun shipping oranges


quarantine camp near Lakeland.
The yellow fever scare has paralyzed the
business of the hotels at St Augustine
O. p. Ravens. formerly of Savannah has
opened photograph gallery at Jackson
vile.
A large number Of Ponce de Leon me-
chanics left st. Augustine Saturday over
come by fear.
The ST. Augustine Philharmonic Society
has about thirty members, which number
will be rapidly increased.
The name of the man who fell and was
killed at Cottondale Friday night was
Charles w. Rivers, and he hailed from La
Grange, Ky.
Meyer q Muller, of jacksonville, have
sold to Lucien T. Canova the property oc-
cupied by the latter on Charlotte street, at
st. Augustine for $500.
The express agent running between
Gainesville and st. Augustine was put off
by the quarantine officers and not allowed
to enter st. Augustine Saturday.
A. S. Chalker, of Middleburgh, has as
signed in favor of w. S. Wightman, of
Jacksonville Mr.. Chall<er's liabilities
amount TO some 81, 900; the assets will cover
the liabilities.
The Epscopalans viii build new par
sonage Oh their lot at st. Augustine, on Ma
rine Street, shortly. 1t will have every con
venience, and the money required has
already been raised.
Reuben Carlton, the Brevard county
desperate, who has been wanted for a year
past for an assault on Benjamin Hrgg, at
st. Lucie, gave himself up to Sheriff Covar
last week, and will be tried.
At Gainesville Saturday Judge Finley
continued the case against the Florida Fer
tilizer Manufacturing Company, and has
given the filers of the Injunction six days in
which to give $4,000 bonds.
The people living on the borders of San
Pedro bay are having splendid sport shoot
| ing deer now Four or five have been killed
recently, and this game is said to be plenti-
full thereabouts and in splendid condition.
A move is on foot to establish a Masonic
lodge in Green Cove. There are number
of good, substantial old Masons to start
with, and an abundance of young material
could doubtless be worked in to advantage
e. N. Wilson, a Northern man, who con-
Quoted the Ocklawaha House, at Eustis,
last season, will be the manager of the Casa
Monica, at st Augustine, which will be
ready to receive guests not later than
Jan. l.
Frank Miranda who was so badly in
| jured in Savannah recently by a colored
man, having been struck terrible blow on
the head with a stone weighing ten pounds,
has nearly recovered, and is visiting friends
in St Augustine.
At st. Augustine, Tuesday morning, an
infant child of Mr.. Graham, while playing
in the street with cup in its hand fell
breaking the cup, the jagged edge of which
made a deep cut i'll the cheek and throat,
and severed an artery.
The buildings for the car shops at Green
Cove are nearing completion. They have
been rooted, and present an imposing bust
ness appearance, covering, as they do a
large area of ground at the junction of the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West and
Western railroads.
The new Baptist house of worship at
Oviedo, will be dedicated Sunday, Oct. 30.
Rev. W. N Chaudoin will preach the ded-
ication sermon. There will be a three days
meeting on that OCCASION beginning Friday
morning previous, and many persons from
distance are expected to attend.
| d. A. Cumbie, of Narcoosee, has a cotton
plant near his place which is over five feet
across the branches and contains from $50
to 400 blooms, buds and bolls. He and
friend counted 3l7, and then gave up the
task. 1t contains cotton in all it's stages,
| from the swelling bud to the mature article
itself.
Pensacola Commercial: The public will
sympathize with A. V. Clubbs in that gen.
public building and the more readily when
it is learned that Mr. Clubbs was so sure of
| success that he had given New York parties
a bonus of 800 on the sale of the city mort
gage bonds.
Machinery is being delivered for the cold
storage warehouse at Waldo, and work is
being rapidly pushed. The house when
| completed will have a storage capacity of
140 car loads and an ice capacity of twenty
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used for cooling purposes and the balance
will be put ON the market
Orders We're received at st. Augustine
Friday afternoon for Batteries | and l.,
Second Artillery, to proceed without delay
to Atlanta, leaving only a sufficient number
of men to protect government property.
They left Saturday afternoon. This action
of the government in setting an example for
a fever panic is condemned ON all sides at
st. Augustine
Much indignation is expressed by the
travelling public for the trials and priva-
tions that they are obliged to undergo in
consequence of the present strict quaran-
tine laws. 1t is claimed that travellers are
unnecessarily detained, are obliged to go
without shelter and food, and that if they
| are so held they should be furnished food
and shelter during the detention.
The three negroes who were arrested at
GAINESVILLE rev days ago for violating the
quarantine law were carried before Justice
lEnel Saturday and his honor ordered
them released on the ground that there was
no quarantine against Palatka at the time
the parties came to Gainesville. Two of
them left the city, but the other was ar
rested upon the charge of carrying con-
oealed weapons.
The Chipola Hotel Company, of Mariana,
thHYe5been somewhat delayed in their opera
tiens owing to the hardness of a contractor,
/ wh9 delayed returning to them the plan of
the building. They have, however, received
1t and have forwarded it to another con-
tractor whom the directors had propositions
from, and who will, doubtless, in a few
days, inform the directors of his action, and
will doubtless receive the contract, and
begin work at an early day. 1t is only a
question of a short time before the building
will be commenced, and the work will be
pushed rapidly on.
At the Immigration Convention at Gaines
| Vile on Saturday, was a meeting of vast
| Importance and interest to old Alachua
The meeting was well attended from all
parts of the county by its best citizens Not
only was the subject of the immigration
matter handled, but the Sub-Tropical Expo
sition was dwelt upon by all who spoke, and
| it was the unanimous sentiment that the
! Board of County Commissioners should see
! the great good which would come to the
| comfy and annrOpIiata NJ laact : IO0 fOr